"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), manager & half owner of the Philadelphia American League baseball team ("Athletics"), was awarded the $10,000 Edward William Bok Prize for having done most for Philadelphia last year.

Aimee Sample McPherson, Los Angeles soul saver, denied that she was going to marry Homer Alvan Rodeheaver, archangelic trombonist for Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, but admitted that he had given her a diamond ring.

Alister MacDonald, elder son of British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, junketing in the U. S., met Herbert Hoover Jr., radio chief of Western Air Express, the President's elder son, at dinner in Pasadena, Calif. They talked about aviation.

The City Bank Farmers' Trust Co. (Manhattan) made known that two granddaughters of Abraham Lincoln--Mary Lincoln Isham and Jesse Lincoln Randolph--were each worth over $1,000,000. The fortunes had grown from securities (mainly National Biscuit Co. and Commonwealth Edison Co.) given them by their father. Robert Todd Lincoln, onetime president of Pullman Co.

Paulina, daughter of Speaker Nicholas Longworth of the House of Representatives, granddaughter of the late President Theodore Roosevelt, celebrated her fifth birthday by going to the House gallery for the first time. Noting her appearance, the representatives rose, faced her, applauded. Excited by the tumult, she giggled, clapped back at them, had to be told to drop her hands and bow.

Booker Taliaferro Washington Jr., son of the late great blackamoor educator, was sued by his wife, Mrs. Nettie Hancock Washington, in a cross-complaint against his divorce action, in Los Angeles. She objected to his boasting of his father, taking credit for many of the virtues of the deceased. Each accused the other of infidelity.

Paul W. Chapman, President of the United States Lines, filed an application with the U. S. Shipping Board for the approval of a proposal to build two liners costing $30,000,000 apiece, longer than the Leviathan, swifter than the Bremen. He suggested that the Navy could use them in time of war.

Noah Beery, sturdy cinemactor, underwent an appendectomy in Hollywood.

Richard J. Glendon, Columbia championship crew coach, underwent an appendectomy in Manhattan.

Chairman Owen D. Young of General Electric Co., President of the Board of Trustees of St. Lawrence University (Canton, N. Y.), executive committeeman of International General Education Board, possessor of 15 honorary degrees, was nominated for election to the New York State Board of Regents (educational) in the Legislature. He was defeated by George H. Bond, lawyer and trustee of Syracuse University. Reason: Mr. Young is a Democrat.

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